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Jul 01, 2010 18:01

I am currently sitting in the library after a good forty minutes of scrounging for a seat. Luck came to me and I am now happily seated in the hidden nook with large bay windows overlooking the green hills next to Lake Elizabeth. (You know what area I'm talking about.)

Coming to the library for leisure is sure different than coming here for school projects. Actually, I think the last time I sat down in the library with books and my laptop was when I had QUEST senior year of high school. (Fun memories aren't they.) It's funny, I HATED the library back then. I thought the place was bland and smelled funny...which is still true today...But since the library is the only place I can think of where I can be nerdy in Fremont, the library it is! (We really need more cafes, parks, lounges, etc.)

Anyway, While I was mindlessly browsing the aisles, I came across the book, Chinese American Names by Emma Woo Louie. It mostly consists of dry research about (duh) Chinese American names, but I was very intrigued by Part II, Names As Clues To Identity. Here's a quote that I found quite interesting:

"'Where do you come from?' is a question that can be annoying because it assumes that the native-born Asian American is a foreigner. As a respondent in a Dear Abby Column explained, no bias would be attached if white persons asked this of one another. But, in his experience, people who ask this question invariably 'find it hard to believe that an Asian-looking person is actually a native, true-blue, 100% American-and not a recently arrived immigrant from some foreign country (61).'"

I don't know why I'm so into this, but OK, that's all for now. I'm now onto more important and fun books like Handbook of Ornaments in Color! I'm excited to bust out my sketchpad. Oh yeah.
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